CSW
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CSW is a human rights organisation specialising in freedom of religion or belief.
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#India:
Approximately 2,000 Christians representing more than 200 denominations gathered in New Delhi on 29 November to draw attention to increasing hostility faced by Christians and to advocate for long-delayed legal and constitutional reforms.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/05/p...
Approximately 2,000 Christians representing more than 200 denominations gathered in New Delhi on 29 November to draw attention to increasing hostility faced by Christians and to advocate for long-delayed legal and constitutional reforms.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/05/p...
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
#India:
Approximately 2,000 Christians representing more than 200 denominations gathered in New Delhi on 29 November to draw attention to increasing hostility faced by Christians and to advocate for long-delayed legal and constitutional reforms.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/05/p...
Approximately 2,000 Christians representing more than 200 denominations gathered in New Delhi on 29 November to draw attention to increasing hostility faced by Christians and to advocate for long-delayed legal and constitutional reforms.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/05/p...
#Colombia:
Newly released video footage appears to depict a group of religious and social leaders being transported to a location to which they were summoned by an illegal armed group in #Calamar, shortly before they are believed to have been killed.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/05/p...
Newly released video footage appears to depict a group of religious and social leaders being transported to a location to which they were summoned by an illegal armed group in #Calamar, shortly before they are believed to have been killed.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/05/p...
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
#Colombia:
Newly released video footage appears to depict a group of religious and social leaders being transported to a location to which they were summoned by an illegal armed group in #Calamar, shortly before they are believed to have been killed.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/05/p...
Newly released video footage appears to depict a group of religious and social leaders being transported to a location to which they were summoned by an illegal armed group in #Calamar, shortly before they are believed to have been killed.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/05/p...
CSW calls on the Northumbria Police to conduct a detailed investigation into the physical assault of our Sudan Specialist Mohaned Elnour at a demonstration in Newcastle on 30 November, ensuring that those responsible face appropriate consequences. www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/02/p...
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
CSW calls on the Northumbria Police to conduct a detailed investigation into the physical assault of our Sudan Specialist Mohaned Elnour at a demonstration in Newcastle on 30 November, ensuring that those responsible face appropriate consequences. www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/02/p...
#Myanmar/#Burma: The Chin Human Rights Organization and CSW have urgently called on the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Military.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/02/p...
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/02/p...
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
#Myanmar/#Burma: The Chin Human Rights Organization and CSW have urgently called on the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Military.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/02/p...
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/02/p...
#Nicaragua:
Roman Catholic lay leaders Carmen María Sáenz Martínez and Lesbia del Socorro Gutiérrez Poveda were released into house arrest in Matagalpa after spending nearly 16 months in incommunicado detention, on 29 November.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/01/p...
Roman Catholic lay leaders Carmen María Sáenz Martínez and Lesbia del Socorro Gutiérrez Poveda were released into house arrest in Matagalpa after spending nearly 16 months in incommunicado detention, on 29 November.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/01/p...
December 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#Nicaragua:
Roman Catholic lay leaders Carmen María Sáenz Martínez and Lesbia del Socorro Gutiérrez Poveda were released into house arrest in Matagalpa after spending nearly 16 months in incommunicado detention, on 29 November.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/01/p...
Roman Catholic lay leaders Carmen María Sáenz Martínez and Lesbia del Socorro Gutiérrez Poveda were released into house arrest in Matagalpa after spending nearly 16 months in incommunicado detention, on 29 November.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/01/p...
#Vietnam / #Thailand
Y Quynh Bdap’s extradition to Vietnam is an egregious and flagrant breach of international law. Thailand is a willing and hospitable co-conspirator in Vietnam’s transnational repression of a UNHCR-recognised refugee.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/01/p...
Y Quynh Bdap’s extradition to Vietnam is an egregious and flagrant breach of international law. Thailand is a willing and hospitable co-conspirator in Vietnam’s transnational repression of a UNHCR-recognised refugee.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/01/p...
December 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
#Vietnam / #Thailand
Y Quynh Bdap’s extradition to Vietnam is an egregious and flagrant breach of international law. Thailand is a willing and hospitable co-conspirator in Vietnam’s transnational repression of a UNHCR-recognised refugee.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/01/p...
Y Quynh Bdap’s extradition to Vietnam is an egregious and flagrant breach of international law. Thailand is a willing and hospitable co-conspirator in Vietnam’s transnational repression of a UNHCR-recognised refugee.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/01/p...
CSW has released a new report today which reveals the complex and repressive legal architecture underpinning escalating violations of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China.
Read it here: www.csw.org.uk/chinareport2...
Read it here: www.csw.org.uk/chinareport2...
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
CSW has released a new report today which reveals the complex and repressive legal architecture underpinning escalating violations of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China.
Read it here: www.csw.org.uk/chinareport2...
Read it here: www.csw.org.uk/chinareport2...
#SUDAN:
Two churches in the city of Port Sudan were targeted by vandals on 26 November, in what appears to be a coordinated attack.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/28/p...
Two churches in the city of Port Sudan were targeted by vandals on 26 November, in what appears to be a coordinated attack.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/28/p...
December 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#SUDAN:
Two churches in the city of Port Sudan were targeted by vandals on 26 November, in what appears to be a coordinated attack.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/28/p...
Two churches in the city of Port Sudan were targeted by vandals on 26 November, in what appears to be a coordinated attack.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/28/p...
CSW wholeheartedly disagrees with the Thai authorities’ decision to reject Y Quynh Bdap’s appeal.
We implore PM Anutin Charnvirakul not to authorise this extradition order, and we call on other governments to assist in resettling Bdap and his family.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/26/p...
We implore PM Anutin Charnvirakul not to authorise this extradition order, and we call on other governments to assist in resettling Bdap and his family.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/26/p...
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
CSW wholeheartedly disagrees with the Thai authorities’ decision to reject Y Quynh Bdap’s appeal.
We implore PM Anutin Charnvirakul not to authorise this extradition order, and we call on other governments to assist in resettling Bdap and his family.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/26/p...
We implore PM Anutin Charnvirakul not to authorise this extradition order, and we call on other governments to assist in resettling Bdap and his family.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/26/p...
#URGENT: The legal team of UNHCR-recognised refugee & human rights defender #YQuynhBdap have been informed that a Thai court may approve his extradition tomorrow.
If returned to Vietnam, he faces torture & prolonged detention. Thailand must uphold #HumanRights & #NonRefoulement.
If returned to Vietnam, he faces torture & prolonged detention. Thailand must uphold #HumanRights & #NonRefoulement.
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
#URGENT: The legal team of UNHCR-recognised refugee & human rights defender #YQuynhBdap have been informed that a Thai court may approve his extradition tomorrow.
If returned to Vietnam, he faces torture & prolonged detention. Thailand must uphold #HumanRights & #NonRefoulement.
If returned to Vietnam, he faces torture & prolonged detention. Thailand must uphold #HumanRights & #NonRefoulement.
#China: CSW condemns the formal arrest Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri and 17 other leaders from Zion Church, all of whom have been targeted solely for the peaceful exercise of their religious beliefs.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/20/p... #ZionChurch
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/20/p... #ZionChurch
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
#China: CSW condemns the formal arrest Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri and 17 other leaders from Zion Church, all of whom have been targeted solely for the peaceful exercise of their religious beliefs.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/20/p... #ZionChurch
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/20/p... #ZionChurch
Authorities in #Vietnam sentenced ethnic Khmer Krom monk Venerable Kim Som Rinh and activists Thach Nga and Thach Xuan Dong to three and a half years in prison on charges of ‘abusing democratic freedoms’ on 18 November.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/19/p...
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/19/p...
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Authorities in #Vietnam sentenced ethnic Khmer Krom monk Venerable Kim Som Rinh and activists Thach Nga and Thach Xuan Dong to three and a half years in prison on charges of ‘abusing democratic freedoms’ on 18 November.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/19/p...
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/19/p...
#Syria: CSW is saddened by news of the death of the Syrian Druze community leader Dr Hamza Shaheen, who was abducted from his family home in Deir Ali near Damascus on 27 October.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/10/p...
www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
#Syria: CSW is saddened by news of the death of the Syrian Druze community leader Dr Hamza Shaheen, who was abducted from his family home in Deir Ali near Damascus on 27 October.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/10/p...
www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/10/p...
#Malaysia
The Malaysian High Court has ordered the government of Malaysia and police to pay a sum of 37 million Malaysian Ringgits for their involvement in the February 2017 abduction of Pastor Raymond Koh.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/05/p...
The Malaysian High Court has ordered the government of Malaysia and police to pay a sum of 37 million Malaysian Ringgits for their involvement in the February 2017 abduction of Pastor Raymond Koh.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/05/p...
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#Malaysia
The Malaysian High Court has ordered the government of Malaysia and police to pay a sum of 37 million Malaysian Ringgits for their involvement in the February 2017 abduction of Pastor Raymond Koh.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/05/p...
The Malaysian High Court has ordered the government of Malaysia and police to pay a sum of 37 million Malaysian Ringgits for their involvement in the February 2017 abduction of Pastor Raymond Koh.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/05/p...
#India: A group of assailants violently attacked a bus carrying around 10 to 15 Christian missionaries from Kerala as it was departing from a private home in Juthana Village, in the Kathua District of Jammu and Kashmir, on 23 October.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#India: A group of assailants violently attacked a bus carrying around 10 to 15 Christian missionaries from Kerala as it was departing from a private home in Juthana Village, in the Kathua District of Jammu and Kashmir, on 23 October.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
#SYRIA:
Two people were killed and 11 were injured when gunmen opened fire on a coach carrying Druze civilians in Suwayda Province on 28 October.
The day before, Druze Doctoer Hamza Shaheen, was abducted from his family home in Deir Ali near Damascus.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
Two people were killed and 11 were injured when gunmen opened fire on a coach carrying Druze civilians in Suwayda Province on 28 October.
The day before, Druze Doctoer Hamza Shaheen, was abducted from his family home in Deir Ali near Damascus.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
#SYRIA:
Two people were killed and 11 were injured when gunmen opened fire on a coach carrying Druze civilians in Suwayda Province on 28 October.
The day before, Druze Doctoer Hamza Shaheen, was abducted from his family home in Deir Ali near Damascus.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
Two people were killed and 11 were injured when gunmen opened fire on a coach carrying Druze civilians in Suwayda Province on 28 October.
The day before, Druze Doctoer Hamza Shaheen, was abducted from his family home in Deir Ali near Damascus.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
#VIETNAM / #THAILAND
Approximately 70 Vietnamese Montagnard refugees were detained by Thai immigration authorities in Nonthaburi, a suburb north of Thailand’s capital Bangkok, on the morning of 29 October.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
Approximately 70 Vietnamese Montagnard refugees were detained by Thai immigration authorities in Nonthaburi, a suburb north of Thailand’s capital Bangkok, on the morning of 29 October.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
#VIETNAM / #THAILAND
Approximately 70 Vietnamese Montagnard refugees were detained by Thai immigration authorities in Nonthaburi, a suburb north of Thailand’s capital Bangkok, on the morning of 29 October.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
Approximately 70 Vietnamese Montagnard refugees were detained by Thai immigration authorities in Nonthaburi, a suburb north of Thailand’s capital Bangkok, on the morning of 29 October.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...
#SYRIA:
Reham Hammouda, an Alawite schoolteacher and mother of two, was killed in the Al-Walid neighbourhood of Homs on the evening of 25 October after an unknown assailant on a motorbike threw a hand grenade at her family home.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/27/p...
Reham Hammouda, an Alawite schoolteacher and mother of two, was killed in the Al-Walid neighbourhood of Homs on the evening of 25 October after an unknown assailant on a motorbike threw a hand grenade at her family home.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/27/p...
October 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
#SYRIA:
Reham Hammouda, an Alawite schoolteacher and mother of two, was killed in the Al-Walid neighbourhood of Homs on the evening of 25 October after an unknown assailant on a motorbike threw a hand grenade at her family home.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/27/p...
Reham Hammouda, an Alawite schoolteacher and mother of two, was killed in the Al-Walid neighbourhood of Homs on the evening of 25 October after an unknown assailant on a motorbike threw a hand grenade at her family home.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/27/p...
#Egypt: CSW is deeply concerned by a crackdown on atheists and religious activists that has seen 14 people, including YouTuber Magid Zakarya Abdulrahman, arrested since 13 September.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/22/p...
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/22/p...
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#Egypt: CSW is deeply concerned by a crackdown on atheists and religious activists that has seen 14 people, including YouTuber Magid Zakarya Abdulrahman, arrested since 13 September.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/22/p...
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/22/p...
#Mexico: CSW is calling for a full and transparent investigation into the murder of Father Bertoldo Pantaléon Estrada, who went missing on 4 October and was discovered having sustained multiple gunshot wounds inside his vehicle two days later.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/17/p...
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/17/p...
October 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#Mexico: CSW is calling for a full and transparent investigation into the murder of Father Bertoldo Pantaléon Estrada, who went missing on 4 October and was discovered having sustained multiple gunshot wounds inside his vehicle two days later.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/17/p...
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/17/p...
#Colombia:
On 2 October the traditional indigenous council on Nasa land in Cauca Department issued Protestant Pastor Aristides Chocue with an ultimatum to leave the community of Betania with his family by 17 October or face punishment.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/15/p...
On 2 October the traditional indigenous council on Nasa land in Cauca Department issued Protestant Pastor Aristides Chocue with an ultimatum to leave the community of Betania with his family by 17 October or face punishment.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/15/p...
October 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
#Colombia:
On 2 October the traditional indigenous council on Nasa land in Cauca Department issued Protestant Pastor Aristides Chocue with an ultimatum to leave the community of Betania with his family by 17 October or face punishment.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/15/p...
On 2 October the traditional indigenous council on Nasa land in Cauca Department issued Protestant Pastor Aristides Chocue with an ultimatum to leave the community of Betania with his family by 17 October or face punishment.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/15/p...
#CHINA
CSW echoes calls for the immediate release of Pastor Jin and the other leaders and members of Zion Church who were detained in this latest crackdown.
We call on the CCP to cease its harassment of unregistered churches and religious groups.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...
CSW echoes calls for the immediate release of Pastor Jin and the other leaders and members of Zion Church who were detained in this latest crackdown.
We call on the CCP to cease its harassment of unregistered churches and religious groups.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...
October 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#CHINA
CSW echoes calls for the immediate release of Pastor Jin and the other leaders and members of Zion Church who were detained in this latest crackdown.
We call on the CCP to cease its harassment of unregistered churches and religious groups.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...
CSW echoes calls for the immediate release of Pastor Jin and the other leaders and members of Zion Church who were detained in this latest crackdown.
We call on the CCP to cease its harassment of unregistered churches and religious groups.
www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/14/p...
#SUDAN:
At least 60 people, including 22 children, were killed in airstrikes by the Rapid Support Forces on the Dar al-Arqam IDP camp in #ElFasher, North #Darfur State, on 10 October.
The attack followed days of increased bombardment of the city.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/13/p...
At least 60 people, including 22 children, were killed in airstrikes by the Rapid Support Forces on the Dar al-Arqam IDP camp in #ElFasher, North #Darfur State, on 10 October.
The attack followed days of increased bombardment of the city.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/13/p...
October 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#SUDAN:
At least 60 people, including 22 children, were killed in airstrikes by the Rapid Support Forces on the Dar al-Arqam IDP camp in #ElFasher, North #Darfur State, on 10 October.
The attack followed days of increased bombardment of the city.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/13/p...
At least 60 people, including 22 children, were killed in airstrikes by the Rapid Support Forces on the Dar al-Arqam IDP camp in #ElFasher, North #Darfur State, on 10 October.
The attack followed days of increased bombardment of the city.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/13/p...
#Nigeria:
The Christian Association of Nigeria has issued a statement clarifying its position on ongoing attacks on Christian communities in light of significant efforts to deny their existence and severity.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/09/p...
The Christian Association of Nigeria has issued a statement clarifying its position on ongoing attacks on Christian communities in light of significant efforts to deny their existence and severity.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/09/p...
October 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
#Nigeria:
The Christian Association of Nigeria has issued a statement clarifying its position on ongoing attacks on Christian communities in light of significant efforts to deny their existence and severity.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/09/p...
The Christian Association of Nigeria has issued a statement clarifying its position on ongoing attacks on Christian communities in light of significant efforts to deny their existence and severity.
Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/09/p...